“Our feelings of separation from God will diminish as we become more childlike before Him. That is not easy in a world where the opinions of other human beings can have such an effect on our motives. But it will help us recognize this truth: God is close to us and aware of us and never hides from His faithful children.
“ … Sometimes our insistence on acting according to our own timetable can obscure [God’s] will for us.” When we’re humble, “we [listen to God] when we feel and pray, ‘Thy will be done’ and ‘in Thine own time’” (Erying, “Where Is the Pavilion?” 72–73).